62 THE HOKSE. 



mains to hope, that in improving the stock by the introduction 

 of blood, the breeding of mares of the original type, from parents 

 of size, power and shape, of the same stock on both sides, will 

 not be neglected ; for it may, I think, be taken as an established 

 physical fact, that wlien the mares of any family have degene- 

 rated in size and bone, from being brought too nearly to oriental 

 blood, the stock cannot be improved, or brought back to the 

 original bulk and bone, retaining the game qualities of the blood, 

 by the use of large coarse sires. 



And this brings me to the Canadian horse, which I regard, 

 as in its unmixed state, and I believe very many to exist in 

 Canada perfectly unmixed, to be of the purest and best Norman 

 blood. 



